Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 flash, Gemini Omni, Gemini Spark, Antigravity 2.0 and more

Key Takeaways:

• At Google I/O Google announced lots of new features and a vision for the Agentic Web and stating "Google Search is AI Search":

  • Gemini 3.5 flash: fast, but relatively expensive

  • Gemini Spark: 24/7 personal agent running in the cloud - Give it a task and it works autonomously in the background, even if your phone and laptop are turned off. You choose to turn it on and it's designed to check with you before taking major actions (first only US and Google AI Ultra Users)

  • Gemini Omni: Generate videos and check images for AI generation based on SynthID and C2PA - coming to the Gemini app for paid subscribers today. It lets you bring your ideas to life using any combination of text, images, and video inputs. Just open up Gemini, attach a video from your camera roll, and change it around.

  • Chrome Dev Tools Agents: Skills, MCP, CLI for making agentic use of your Chrome browser

  • UCP expands: new partners join offering/integrating UCP moving towards agentic ecommerce

  • Search Updates: more seemless integration of AI Mode (while not making it the default) + Mini Apps in Google Search that can be saved and revisited + a more intelligent, intent driven use of Search and AI Search features + personalization

  • Antigravity 2.0: new updates to the AI dev platform

  • Ads in AI Mode and Gemini

  • ...lots more

Sources:s

• https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/google-io-2026-collection/

• https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2056792333132460322

• https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2056800579159216202

• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/devtools-for-agents-v1

• https://x.com/Marie_Haynes/status/2056853363183030472

• https://x.com/shiri_shh/status/2056842018954059853

• https://x.com/Google/status/2056796241887953123

• https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/

• https://x.com/Marie_Haynes/status/2057189680311943418